9 ideas
| 21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
| 16007 | I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard] |
| 16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
| 16013 | Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard] |
| 22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
| 22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
| 22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
| 21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
| 21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |